Button-hole marker



(NoMode1.)

A. BUFFER.

BUTTON HOLE MARKER.

' No. 353,064." Patented Nov. 23, 1886.

IN VENTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

ANNA HUFFER, or COWDEN, ILLINOIS.

BUTTON-H OLE MARKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.353,064, dated November23, 1886.

Application filed July 13, 1886.

To all whom it mag concern..-

jor cut in the shortest space of time with the least trouble at regularintervals and of the same length and distance from the edge.

It consists, to that end, in the construction and combination of theparts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my buttonhole marker, and Fig. 2 is'atransverse section thereof. Fig. 3 is a section of a modified formthereof.

A represents the main body of the marker, made of a fiat piece of metalor other suitable material, usually three inches in width, having lips GO at one side, upon each end, and provided with a series of slots, 0!,cut therein at intervals of half an inch from the front edge back towithin about three-quarters of an inch ,from the opposite edge, throughwhich the button-holes are marked or cut.

Over the front edge of the body A is bent a strip, B, U-shaped incrosssection, about a quarter of an inch wide, that being the usualdistance button-holes are cut from the edge of fabric. Upon the upperface of the strip B is stamped or otherwise produced a scale indicatingone foot, which is the usual length of the finished marker,.and thefractional parts of a foot, the lines designating the half-inch and inchalternately centering the slots a. When the scale B is thus bent overthe body A, the slots measure two inches, the cut of the largestbutton-hole ordinarily used.

\ The guide D, formed of a narrow strip of metal nearly the length ofthe marker, is adapted to slide freely in ways formed by folding theendsO of the plate of the body A in- Serial No. 207,901. (No model.)

ward and over the same, and the lips CO thereon down to a bearing uponthe plate, to form a support at one end for the folded portion 0, theother end receiving support from the scale-plate B. The lips G 0, whenthus bent down, serve the dual purpose of contributing to thesupport ofthe folded ends 0 a suitable distance above the body A, to allow theguide-plate D ample play therein, and of stops preventing the saidguide-plate from sliding from its position on the said body A.

I sometimes omit the binding-strip upon the front edge and stamp thescale in the body itself. The slots are then cut a quarter of an inchfrom the front or scale edge, extending back the same distance, or twoinches. The body in this event is made of a plate formed with lips uponeach side of the end, so that a stop is formed upon each edge for thesliding guide-plate, as illustrated in Fig. 3.

The slots may be cut in the body oneeighth, one quarter, or threc-quarters of an inch apart, or at any interval found necessary inuse, and the marker may be made larger or shorter without departing fromthe spirit of my invention. A marker twelve inches in length, as shown,and with the slots cut at intervals of half an inch, I find, however,the most con-:

venient for general use.

By sliding the guideplate D toward or from the front edge a short orlong button-hole is bad, as required.

Twenty-four button-holes a half-inch apart can be cut or marked by themarker, as illustrated, without moving the same from the cloth. Eitherlarge or small holes can be cut, and the distance between thebutton-holes can be made greater by skipping the necessary number ofslots. In marking or cutting a lengthy piece of goods (after the spaceof one foot has been covered) a mark is made on the goods at the end ofthe marker which measures just onehalf or one-quarter of an inch (as theslots are intervaled) from the center of the last slot to the outside ofthe bent end 0. The mark thus made is covered by the first slot in themarker, and the operation of marking continued, and so on to the end ofthe piece.

Theconstruction of my marker is very simple, being free from partsliable to disarrangcment or breakage, and by its use a number of a p m353,064

perfect button-holes can be accurately and expeditiously cut .or mark edwithout raising the marker from the goods.

The operation is as follows: The marker is placed with its front orscale edge even with the edge of the cloth in which the holes are to beout. The guide D is then slid toward the front, the distance beingregulated according to the size of the hole desired, and held in placewith the fingers of the left hand, while with the right the holes aremarked or out half an inch, an inch and a half, two inches, or as farapart as the operator wishes, all the buttoirholes being marked or cutthe same distance from the edge of the cloth and all the same distanceapart and of the same length.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A button-hole marker consisting ofa main body, A, provided with ascale, and having regularly-spaced slots a, which align with thedivisionrnarks of the scale, and ofa guide-plate, D, held to slidetransversely on the body A, substantially as shown and described.

2. Abutton-hole marker consisting of a body, A, having upturned ends 0,and stops 0', and provided with a series of slots cut therein at regularintervals, and a scale extending its entire length along one edge,together with a guide-plate, D, adapted to slide in ways formed by saidupturned ends 0, substantially in the manner and for the purpose hereinset forth.

3. In a button-hole marker, the combination, with the slotted body A,having upturned ends 0 and stops 0, and provided with a slidingguide-plate, D, of the U shaped metal plate B, provided with a scaleupon its face adapted to be rigidly secured to one edge of the said bodyA, the lines thereon designating the halfinch and inch, alternatelycentering the slots cut in said body, substantially as shown anddescribed, and for the purpose herein set forth.

ANNA HUFFER.

\Vitnesses:

F. I SHERMAN, 0. T. TAGGART.

